That proposition itself might be ruled unconstitutional...heh.

There was once a major theological fight between the Catholic position of transubstantiation (the bread and wine are literally transformed into the body and blood of Jesus) versus the Protestant position toward consubstantiation (the essence of Jesus is present with the consecrated bread and wine, which are…

This is also why I wait before upgrading to a major new iOS release—I’m not interested in being Apple’s beta tester. I’m still sitting on 10.3.3 and probably will for a while at this rate. On the bright side, those stubborn few 32-bit only games I have are still playable.

“Nostalgia” is pretty much a pseudo-medical—that is, a perceived, actual disease in the 17th through 19th centuries, but since discredited—rebranding of “romanticism,” and romanticism itself is nothing new. It was said that the Romans, at the height of their empire, were always wistful for those earlier days of…

And you probably won’t. Impeachment is a purely political act, in practice. It might happen if Trump becomes so unpopular as to threaten to drag the rest of the party with him, but he seems to still be quite popular with the GOP base.

You know, I fundamentally agree that Clinton likely would have been the nominee regardless for precisely the factors you’ve cited here. As much as I did support Sanders, Clinton campaigned far more effectively for Democratic constituencies that Sanders otherwise took for granted—that’s both to Clinton’s credit and a…

Ostensibly, we are in a democracy, and this is how democracy works—sometimes party elites don’t get what they want. These aren’t those halcyon 19th century days of Tammany Hall and Boss Tweed anymore.

I mean, this is kind of besides the point. Yes, this goes a long way to avoiding double taxation in basic circumstances, but certainly not fully. This also doesn’t address, for example, Boris Johnson’s $50K U.S. tax bill merely for selling his own house in the UK, as the U.S. assesses a capital gains tax on selling…

It’s taxes. The U.S. places a unique tax reporting burden on its expats/emigrants that no other country (except Eritrea) places on its foreign citizens. Now, couple that with birthright citizenship—a child, say, born in Canada to a U.S. citizen parent, but has never set foot in the U.S. is still, by birth, a U.S.…

I mean, we’re talking about Disney here—they meticulously micromanage every single one of these films to squeeze out any ounce of risk to the point that all these Marvel films are essentially formulaic. They will do absolutely nothing that could even possibly/remotely jeopardize a billion dollar payday for each…

Hah...fair enough. Cheers.

Frankly, I feel the chances of that happening are pretty non-existent. He’s a shorter guy, so he probably already had larger legs to work with, plus I’m guessing he’s a professional athlete by what I’m seeing in that photo.

Hell, I walk to work daily, but I wouldn’t dare bike. With all the fatal cyclist/auto collisions in the city I live in, I feel like it’s a death wish.

“It was modern-day media, and social media, that kept pushing people further right and further left. People started to figure out...they could choose where to get their news. And so what do people do? They choose places they agree with, reinforcing the divide.”

I believe genetics are involved in terms of those most likely to suffer outbreaks versus those who never do, but still carry the virus in a lifelong dormant state. I suspect it would be quite improbable that your mother and husband somehow avoided getting the virus, especially when your kids do have it.

Hah...thanks. I’m not quite sure how to go about getting ungreyed permanently here.

The bigger problem, I’d say, is that the nomination system is a gigantic mess. It has the veneer of democracy when it’s mostly about manipulating the public into a predetermined result. Why else would we have a parade of primaries (closed and open) and caucuses over a period of months—again, notice that the rules are…

We’ve been at this stage of history before, and we can fix it again.

I think that was a pretty common attitude amongst European immigrants in the early 20th century—assimilation by abandoning their native languages for English (my own immigrant ancestors did the same, refusing to speak anything but English once they arrived stateside), although it’s interesting to hear yours went so…

The Midwestern mindset fundamentally revolves around individualism and hard work. The fear they have with Democrats is that the kind of work that they used to rely on to maintain those values—high-paying industrial and manufacturing jobs—are going to be permanently replaced with low-paying service jobs and government…